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Bridget Quinn

Bridget Quinn is a writer, art historian, and critic. She’s the author of the lively biography Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry & Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard—think Hamilton or Amadeus, but women artists. Her book She Votes was an Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best History Books of 2020, and her debut, Broad Strokes, was an Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best Art & Photography Books of 2017 and a 2018 Amelia Bloomer List selection of recommended feminist literature by the American Library Association. A regular contributor to arts magazine Hyperallergic, Bridget is a nationally sought-after speaker on women and art.

2025 Writers’ Workshops 

Speaker  – Paths to Publishing: From the Big Five to DIY

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

2025 Writers’ Workshops

Speaker A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis